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Home Care Market — Wisconsin

Researching: Official source and access being evaluated.
The official source and access method are being evaluated. No figures are published. Wisconsin licenses home care providers as “Personal Care Agency (PCA)”. This profile records who licenses home care in Wisconsin, which official records exist and where coverage stands.
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Licensing authority
Wisconsin Department of Health Services(opens in a new tab)
State license term
Personal Care Agency (PCA)
Official sources
3
Identified by research; none configured yet
Research verification
Oct 5, 2026
Verified by loading the official page

Coverage status

Current status: Researching. Next: Confirm access to the official source, its fields and its update cadence, then build and test a connector. No date is promised.

  1. Source research(completed)Oct 5, 2026

    Verified by loading the official page

  2. Connector built(in progress)In progress

    Access, fields and cadence confirmed, then a connector is built for the source.

  3. Test ingestion(not started)

    Official file retrieved, stored unchanged and parsed.

  4. Output review(not started)

    Changes compared to the source by hand on a sample of records before anything is published.

  5. Beta, then Live(not started)

    Figures publish with a Beta label first. Live requires a verified source, repeatable ingestion and reviewed output.

Official sources

From HomeCareIntent's source research. Cadence is quoted as the source states it, separate from how often HomeCareIntent checks.

Registry entry

Federal CMS data covers Medicare-certified home health agencies only and is not used as non-medical home care coverage.

Licensing authority

  • Wisconsin Department of Health Services(opens in a new tab)

    Division of Quality Assurance (DQA) - Bureau of Assisted Living / Residential and Community-Based Care Licensing and Certification

    Licenses home health agencies (Wis. Admin. Code ch. DHS 133) and certifies personal care agencies for Medicaid (chs. DHS 105-107). Operates the DHS DQA Provider Portal (licensure/certification applications) and Provider Search.

Definitions: how Wisconsin names home care

State license term
Personal Care Agency (PCA)
Non-medical licensing
Partly. Some non-medical services are licensed or registered.
License types
  • Personal Care Agency (PCA) (counted)
  • Home Health Agency (counted)
  • Hospice (not counted)
Notes
DHS describes PCA services as 'medical in nature' and the PCA designation is a Medicaid certification. Private-pay companion/homemaker agencies appear to need no state license (not explicitly stated on DHS pages reviewed).

Terminology varies by state. HomeCareIntent uses each state's own term on its pages and maps it to a common category. Glossary

What the Index will publish for Wisconsin

Fixed definitions, applied the same way in every state once it is Live.

Methodology
Agencies tracked
Home care organizations holding at least one active license of a type the state's own rules define as relevant. Hospice-only organizations are excluded.
New agencies (30 and 90 days)
Organizations first licensed, or first detected, inside the trailing window. Shown only after HomeCareIntent has observed the whole window.
Licensing events (30 days)
New licenses and locations, closures, status, administrator, licensee and address changes. Dated by the source where it publishes a date.
New agencies per month
A 12-month series. Months before HomeCareIntent's history for a state begins are marked “Not tracked,” never drawn as zero.
Top markets
Cities ranked by tracked organizations. Cities with fewer than three are not ranked.

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